Expertly crafted from mouth-blown glass

The idea that ebooks are designed by 'regimes' to be a tool of repression is bonkers.

Calling the new york times a centre left publication requires some pretty extreme recalibration of left wing politics. It only works if you accept their mainstreaming of proto fascists as traditional conservatives.

I worked with meanjin a few years ago on supporting its sales to close the incredibly small gap between its revenue and costs. It had made progress. The small amount needed to subsidise could be found if UofM saw literary culture as important. It clearly doesn't.

She did you know open.spotify.com/track/4ekr46...

Who could ever forget the masterful negotiated end to the Vietnam war. American exceptionalism right down to the last fleeing helicopter and the total capitulation of the South Vietnamese forces.

Support Bookish in Bendigo, official Bendigo Writers Festival bookseller who would have spent months stocking books for the event and have pulled out in solidarity. Call them for your next book order if you can, or even pay it forward for one of their customers. +61 3 5406 0596

I have worked in books and publishing my entire adult life. I am from Bendigo where my love of ideas and reading were born. The BWF and University I graduated from are acting against a fundamental right. Denying the right to challenge injustice publicly is unsafe for everyone.

It’s very sad seeing Australian cultural institutions tear themselves apart trying to prevent people from even talking about massacres and deliberate starvation

Well that's my Xmas presents sorted for creche!

Tim Winton's photo in today's guardian reminds me of someone.. a woman. But according to AI HE DOESN'T!! So removing my brain now obvs don't need it

I fully expected this to be one post.. and was here for it. The commitment to the bit is sublime

I wonder whether the ABC will run anything on this outrage.

Also Them: Ban Stories

ME: Making idle comments and jokes about mushroom trial over a period of weeks YOU: ranting about the death of publishing because of mushroom trial book

I am shocked that a publisher of a non fiction bestseller still has not corrected the record. This has never happened before... according to said publisher. IN OTHER NEWS how are Belle Gibson and Norma Khouri doing these days?

So many very online opinions about this... but sure, let's hang it on authors... Big Writing has flown under the radar for far too long.

A masterpiece in which the final scene with Enzo will make you weep

Trans allies be visible... And stylish at the same time!!

Saving democracy by bigging up negative gearing

Remember that time the U.S.A invented WiFi 🤪

I feel it is up to Gen X to continue to support the use of the semicolon; misuse the em dash; ignore the Oxford comma; and generally fuck around with grammar www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Vale Ali Kazak, the key educator and advocate for Palestine in Australia. Exceptional courage and commitment is needed to spend decades pursuing freedom for your people and to do so with few resources against considerable odds.

AI hallucinations explained. mumbrella.com.au/news-corp-bl...

Lining up for this

I’m putting it on the record, Najma Sambul has been calling a Labor landslide for weeks, well before David Speers got to say it on TV, and no one believed her lol. Najma, you were right.

Why does the ABC election coverage.. and news generally.. insist on appearing balanced by over emphasising conservative voices and viewpoints #ausvotes

Could the ABC have any more conservative commentators and focus? Asking for a friend who lives in Bendigo (my mum) who just saw the most laughable comment from QLD on her electorate

The German government banning right wing extremist party AfD while the US Republicans embrace full-on right wing extremism was not on my 21st century bingo card

My first though was this is the Australian immunologist and Nobel prize winner.. and I thought.. Yes that is good advice based on science

Niche cooking content

Which is the difference between surplus and deficit and is fundamentally unachievable without further damaging the economy and more importantly the most vulnerable. Well. Done. Angus

Great stuff Alice! One of the first times a mainstream article has articulated the real position of the market. Its even bleaker when you factor in the growth we should see from population increases. This should be a wake-up call to all of us in the industry.

This tastes like shit..feels like shit.. and I have no tolerance for shit... So his shit job is more biology than art

1 in 5 missing women across Australia are Aboriginal Aboriginal population is 3% #auspol #ulurustatement

Everyone is getting at Katy Perry for doing Katy Perry things. Why aren't we yelling at bozos for destroying democracy, the planet, and workers' rights. A waste of space in every sense

This birthday is a rolling series of events.. this is stop 1 with my lovely boys

There should be a prize for the candidate of Clive Palmer Party (can't bring myself to use its name) with the most batshit crazy backstory. Current frontrunner www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Riding inside a Giant Space Dildo emancipates women everywhere

Clearly the two house rule should only be applied to people with three houses

Democracy made manifest

Newcastle has always been the rock n roll of writers festivals

Wait till they find out we've been sending them gay chickens

Musk is playing 2D chess again

I'd like this but I stopped after one like.

I’m seeing a lot of people blame the Monash University Museum of Art for the decision to postpone an exhibition featuring Khaled Sabsabi. The Museum didn’t make this decision and the staff are devastated. The Museum was ordered to pull the show by Monash Vice-Chancellor Sharon Pickering.

Wired does the heavy lifting that oligarch owned @washingtonpost.com and spineless @nytimes.com used to.

Trioli clearly does not live in my Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...